Cristina Manuela Sá

Cristina Manuela Sá (female) is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Education and Psychology of the University of Aveiro (Portugal), where she teaches and supervises master and doctoral students in the area of Language Teacher Education (especially teaching Portuguese as a Mother Tongue). She co-coordinates LEIP/Research Laboratory for Education in Portuguese (with Maria Helena Serra Ferreira Ançã) (https://www.ua.pt/cidtff/leip/). Research and publication areas are: transversality of the Portuguese language (as a Mother Tongue) and its operationalization related to the development of oral and written communication (from kindergarten to the end of secondary education). Peer esteem indicators include: invitations to give keynote presentations and seminars; member of editorial and advisory boards; organizer of international conferences (eg. 2º Encontro Internacional de Ensino do Português, in February 2011, or The Child and the Book Conference: Children’s literature: fractures and disruptions, in March 2015).